Open F2F Class Notes 14th Match (Raph)

Vocabulary

Red tape (n): 1- official rules and processes that seem unnecessary and delay results:
E.g.: We must cut through the red tape.

Empathy (n): 1- the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation.
E.g.: He needed to develop his empathy skills.

Suspicious (n): 1- feeling doubt or no trust in someone or something:
E.g.: His colleagues became suspicious when he did not appear at work, since he was always punctual.

Ethic (n): 1- a system of accepted beliefs that control behavior, especially such a system based on morals.
E.g.: The doctor has been accused of violating professional ethics.

Mindset (n): 1-  a person’s way of thinking and their opinions.
E.g.: He has a very old-fashioned mindset.

Pronunciation

(Original – Edited)

Everything is very slowly – Everything is very slow.

They will don’t believe me. – They will not believe me.

Original: 

I drive everyday, but actually I don’t like driving. I bought my car for my children and I drive them to school everyday. Their school leaves my home about two kilometers and they belong to two campuses. I can take them to ride buses to school but it will spend too much time and make me tired. Of course I can choose bike but I feel too dangerous especially in the morning. In every weekend, I drive my family to parks or shopping mores, but in fact it is not good for me because I can’t have a rest I will be a driver in weekends. When I am free I never use my car for myself I always use subway even I visit my clients. I can control the time with subway but it is too hard for car. To look for parking spaces is the biggest problem in Shanghai, so if I don’t ride subway I will take taxi . I think in Shanghai driving is not a interesting thing.

Edited:

I drive everyday, but actually I don’t like driving. I bought my car because of my children, and I drive them to school everyday. Their school is about two kilometers away from my home and they study in two different campuses. I could take them to to school by bus, but it would take too much time and make me tired. Of course I could also take them by bike but I feel that it is too dangerous, especially in the morning. Every weekend, I drive my family to parks or shopping malls, but in fact that is not good for me, because being the driver of the family means that I can’t rest on weekends. When I am free I never use my car. Instead, I usually take the subway, even when I visit my clients, because by doing that I can easily manage my time, which is too hard to do if I drive my car. Finding a parking space is one of the biggest problems in Shanghai, so if I don’t ride the subway I always take a taxi . I think driving in Shanghai is not an interesting thing.